Harris Wolobah, a healthy 14-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, tragically died last Friday, hours after eating a single ultra-spicy tortilla chip seasoned with two of the hottest peppers in the world.

  • flicker@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This chip has been on the market for literal years at this point and no one has died until now. I’m open to new information but I think it might be a case where the chip formula has changed, or maybe this was a condition they didn’t know the child had, or any number of things.

    I like spicy things. Sometimes what I enjoy is dangerous for others. I grieve for the child’s parents and friends, but am waiting for more information to confirm that it was entirely the chip to blame.

    I also think that we should remember that parents should be supervising these things. If my 11-year-old asked to do the challenge, I would’ve rightfully tried him first on something spicy that’s much less spicy than this. I want to know what all this kid has tried before this challenge. If this was his first exposure to spicy things, then I think it’s reasonable to be unsurprised. If that’s not the case, I want to know.

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      1 year ago

      You’re going to follow him around for the next nine years making sure he doesn’t do any daft teenage things?

      Good luck with that.

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        1 year ago

        That’s still not the company’s fault then. If they cut themselves handling knives, is it the knives manufacturers fault?